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On Fri, 25 May 2007 13:05:37 -0400 |
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Ted Rodgers <trodgers@××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> Afaik, xen tools are only for virtual hosts, which wouldn't help us |
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> much. Our lab machines get hit pretty hard by matlab users, so it's |
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> not something that would virtualize well. The current setup isn't |
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> really clustered at all, it's a rack and lab setup sharing home |
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> directories and automounts using NIS. I liked the idea of letting |
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> something like openmosix doing workload balancing between machines |
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> without having to write wrapper scripts around the jobs. |
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> The ideal setup would have one machine were students/researchers log |
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> into, fire up the process, then have a management tool that |
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> determines where it runs. Users logging into random machines to run |
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> their jobs means sometimes 5 machines are idle while another machine |
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> is heavily loaded. A central login point would also allow us to |
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> restrict direct access to all the other machines. |
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> Ted |
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> José Costa wrote: |
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> > Well, have you tried with Linux-HA using Xen OCF Resource Agent? |
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> > On 5/24/07, Ted Rodgers <trodgers@××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> >> Joshua Morris wrote: |
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> >> > What other alternatives are there? Can anyone share their |
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> >> installation |
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> >> > tips and help some of us that are new to clustering but familiar |
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> >> > with Gentoo. I am looking to build something when I can run |
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> >> > multiple |
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> >> vm's on |
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> >> > a cluster and load balance the vm's across the cluster. Anyone |
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> >> > doing anything similar to this? |
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> >> > Thank you, |
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> >> > Joshua |
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> >> We've been asking the same question where I work. We're wanting to |
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> >> re-do and increase performance in a few lab setups and thought |
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> >> openmosix would be a great option. If there aren't tools |
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> >> available for a 2.6 kernel, we may have to keep using the current |
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> >> setup: NIS / NFS / autofs / afs setup with users loging in to |
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> >> specific machines. One group tried condor, but really isn't happy |
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> >> with it at all. |
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> >> |
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> >> Any suggestions? |
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> >> |
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> >> Ted Rodgers |
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> >> Robotics, CMU |
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> >> gentoo-cluster@g.o mailing list |
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Couldn't you implement a rudimentary load-balancing system with |
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multiple cname entries in dns? |
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